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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
2
The Municipality of Wellington presents a half year accounting under the Municipalities Act. It lists all current accounts under council control showing receipts and disbursements for general and special accounts with dates for each head.
Assessment figures detail annual value of improved property and unimproved capital value as assessed by council after appeals. It lists assets as of August 1907 and liabilities as of August 5 1907 with dates in February 1908.
A lively Sydney column recounts Melbourne railway horror with brutal wreckage and grieving scenes. It notes eight killed previously, now forty five dead and hundreds injured, and hints at a Keep-it-dark Brigade delaying full cause disclosure while exploring urban rating shocks.
Mr. A. Basser, famed Viennese and London optician, will visit Wellington from Next Vierr to August 7, offering sight tests with new instruments. He cites credentials from London, New York, Vienna, Berlin and Dresden and is a British Optical Association master. Free consultations, rimless glasses offered, with no traveling agents.
Sydney wool brokers Schute Bell & Co report plans for sale on June 6 and 7 with about 7000 bales catalogued as prices drift lower amid weak market confidence. Mort & Co note ongoing declines in merino tops on the Continent and Bradford, with auctions resuming next week and about 350 long lots expected.
Goldsbrough Mort and Co report next week’s Sydney wool sale set for May 7 with about 500 bales, while prices across wool types show lower values and cautious demand. Kangaroo, wallaby, possum, rabbit skins and hides feature varied bids, with grey kangaroo firm, red kangaroo weaker, rabbit skins rising, and o p ossum scarce and priced at firm to high rates. beef and hides quoted with overall price softness in prime Grades.
Large attendance of buyers at last week’s rabbit skin sales drove up prices with an advance of gd per lb on the latest auction rates. Higher quality skins expected for coming winters saw keen demand, with 4fd per lh achieved for consignments at Winchcombe Carson and O’s sale.
Prices in Homebush included sheep with prime merino w l5e to 166 6d extra prime 17s to 188 good merino wand h 12s to 13s 6d and more. Lambs ranged prime 11s 6d to 124 6d extra prime 1358 to 138 4d. Cattle yard figures show prime bullocks £2 10a to £10 10s and cows £7 to £8, with various grades noted. Best light beef 28 per 1001b.
A Mulwaree Shire Council circular urged transferring Pastures Protection Board duties to Shire Councils. Dr. Wilson criticized boards for doing little though funded, citing unpaid rabbit control and sparse inspections. The meeting concluded with acceptance of the circular.
Systematic wire netting and fencing on Coombing Park near Qarcoar, owned by A. W. Whitney, took over two years. Gangs removed burrows, cleared rubbish, and replaced fences with wire netting, then subdivided land and installed iron wing gates. Rabbit drives captured six to seven hundred pairs at a time. poison carts and diggers continue to keep the pest nearly eradicated.
A Wellington reader shares a testimonial praising Doan's Backache Kidney Pills for relieving long standing back pain, kidney issues, and dizziness. The note urges readers to protect their kidneys and mentions price and availability through Foster & Co in Sydney.
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